Exclusive GeneWatch Preview: A Review of Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance
CRG Files Landmark Brief with US Supreme Court Challenging, on Racial Justice Grounds, Collection of DNA upon Arrest
New Book from CRG on Race and Genetics
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CRG's diverse program on genetics and race ranges from the creation of briefing papers to community workshops around the country which provide educational resources to racial justice advocates on specific areas where genetics and race intersect. Some areas addressed in our program include:
- Racialized Medicine and BiDil
- Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System and in Forensic DNA Databanks and their Impacts on Populations of Color
- Historical and Current Conceptions of Race
- Race as a Social Construct Without Basis in Biological Reality
- Genes, Race and Intelligence
- Role of Genetics in Reinscribing the Concept of Race into Science
- Race and Ancestry Tests: What They Tell Us.
Special Issue of GeneWatch on Race and Genetics, 2009
CRG's Forums on Race and Genetics
Photos:
Oakland Forum, 2009: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
New York City Forum, 2009: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Media:
Sex, Race, and IQ: Off Limits? by Sharon Begley, Newsweek, April 2009.
Emotional Truth by Patricia Williams, The Nation 2006
Genetically Speaking by Patricia Williams, The Nation, 2005
Articles:
The Short Life of a Race Drug, CRG Board Chair, Sheldon Krimsky, in Lancet
Natural Selection, the Human Genome and the Idea of Race by Robert Pollack, PhD
Ancestry Testing and DNA: Uses, Limits - and Caveat Emptor by Troy Duster, PhD
BiDil and Racialized Medicine by Jonathan Kahn, PhD, JD
Race, Genes and Intelligence by Pilar N. Ossorio, PhD, JD
The Elusive Variability of Race by Patricia J. Williams, JD
A Short History of the Race Concept by Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH
Race and Genetics by Ruth Hubbard, PhD
Confusions About Human Races by R.C. Lewontin, PhD
Additional Materials:
Race and Genetics: A Powerpoint Presentation, by Sheldon Krimsky, PhD 2010
Conceptualizing Human Variation, Nature Genetics 2004
The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence, American Anthropologist, 1997
Race and Forensic DNA Databases:
The racial disparity in criminal arrests and convictions in the United States—especially felony drug offenses— is echoed and potentially exaggerated in DNA databases.
Special Issue of GeneWatch on DNA Databanks and Race
Racial Disparities in Databanking of DNA Profiles by Michael T. Risher
The racial and civil liberties issues associated with these databases were the topics of a conference sponsored by CRG in June of 2008. The event, titled Forensic DNA Databanks and Race: Issues, Abuses and Actions, brought together scientists, scholars, and racial justice activists. Several keynote speakers also submitted full-length papers. These landmark works are featured below:
DRUG ARRESTS AND DNA: Building Jim Crow’s Database by Harry G. Levine, Jon B. Gettman, Craig Reinarman and Deborah Peterson Small
Prejudice, Stigma and DNA Databases by Helen Wallace, GeneWatch UK
DNA Dragnets and Race: Larger Social Context, History and Future by Troy Duster
Can DNA 'Witness' Race?: Forensic Uses of an Imperfect Ancestry Testing Technology by Duana Fullwiley